"Why should you be afraid to die, your soul has been dead for a long time."Prince Prospero (Vincent Price), leads a dissolute life, toying with the peasants under his control for the delight of his courtiers and other landed gentry. Whilst his lands are wracked with a plague called the red death he invites the nobility to shelter in his castle, and plans a masqued ball to amuse them. During this celebration to Satan he has arranged to initiate a peasant girl Francesca (Jane Asher), whom he has kidnapped and taken a shine to. Meanwhile his mistress Juliana (Hazel Court) decides to please him by initiating herself as a satanist. But is Satan as all powerful as Prospero thinks, and can he defeat the red death?
Gloriously vivid redrawing of the Edgar Alan Poe story and possibly Roger Corman's finest hour. There is hardly a foot wrong with this, everything from the look, feel, pacing and acting are spot on.
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